There is still much uncertainty around the multiple explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon this week. What we know so far is that at least 37 people were killed, more than 3,000 injured, and that the war between Israel and militias in Lebanon has escalated once again.

Pagers are radio devices used by the Islamist group Hezbollah— considered a terrorist organization by the EU, the United States, and other countries — because, unlike cell phones, they cannot be geolocated.

In Taiwan, the prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the company that manufactured the devices, following a report in the New York Times that the Israeli secret service planted small explosives in pagers ordered by Hezbollah.

So far, the Israeli government has made no comment on the explosions, nor has it claimed responsibility for the attacks. Confusing and contradictory reports continue to circulate, including some indicating that a company in Bulgaria was also involved in manufacturing the exploding pagers — a claim that has been denied by the Bulgarian authorities.

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Helmut Aust, professor of international law at the Free University of Berlin, says that........

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